On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:33 PM, subhojit ojha <subhojit.ojha@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>A client can take IP address, communicate with server without OS. This
is what pxe/ether boot does. >pxe/etherboot does following
a.send dhcp request
b.obtain ip address,gate way, next-server address etc.
c.fetch kernel from next-server using tftp.
d.execute the kernel
I don't think people consider pxe/etherboot as OS.
I think it may be the solution, actually what the interviewer has askedis, suppose in my >network we have some systems which doesn't have OS
installed but are connected to the >server machine, from server machine how
can he find the hardware address of the client >machine which doesn't have
any OS installed. I hope the PXE will be the solution what u >have
suggested, but in server side what command I need to run to get the hardware
address of these client machine without going to the client side.
Please suggest also some good links for PXE.